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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Recording Live Audio Streams in Windows

In a Q&Aarticle on 10/07/2014, 'The New York Times' published how to record live audio streams. Here is ANOTHER way to accomplish the same feat without the hassle of having to adjust your Computer System's internal audio software setup as it is recommended in that article!

You connect this device to your Speaker Jack in the back of your computer!

THEN you can connect one jack to your speakers (if necessary)

NEXT you connect the following cable:

One end goes to the other jack and the OTHER end connects to the Line In jack on the back of your computer.

NEXT you get the freeAudacity software and when you run it make sure you have the following settings:

Then you can record any sound that you hear on your computer using the freeAudacity software.

To have your computer running Audacityto AUTOMATICALLY record when the audio from your computer's audio source starts; click on 'Edit' and then on 'preferences', make sure that the 'record' dialog box has the following items checked!

With this setup you can record any live or recorded audio that is played on your computer, no matter what its source, and then at your leisure, use Audacityto edit those recordings any way that you see fit.

HOWEVER, check your statelaws about recording any VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone audio; in some states you can record if you are one of the parties in the conversation without the other party's notification AND in other states you have to notify the other party to the conversation that it is being recorded.

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With just a small
change of cabling, the user can also configure their computer system
to then be used to convert any of their [old] vinyl records, stereo
cassette tapes, and any old analog audio output devices that have RCA
output jacks from analog out put to a digital recording.

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1.) 1st the
user purchases a second Y-connector cable.

2.) Then the user
connects the second Y-Connector cable to the line-in jack on the back
of the computer.

3.) The user reconnects
the lead coming from the speaker output to one of the new the line-in
plugs.

4.) The new RCA cable
set plugs into the other new line-in jack.

Now the output from
any analog device {Turntable, Cassette Player, and Radio} can be
recorded using the freeAudacity program to be saved as digital files of any type
(.wav & .mp3 are the most common).